16-MDCT aortography with a low-dose contrast material protocol

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 374-378

  Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^a,b   Awai, Kazuo ^b   Tamura, Yoshitaka ^b   Nishiharu, Taiji ^a   Urata, Joji ^a   Sakamoto, Takashi ^a   Taniguchi, Akira ^c   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a SAISEIKAI KUMAMOTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aorta; Aortography; Contrast media; MDCT angiography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOMEPROL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFUSION RATE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RENAL ARTERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644966845     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1459     Document Type: Article

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